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Yucatec Maya (Yucatec) and other Mayan languages have fully-fledged sentences that consist only of a non-verbal predicate and a bound morpheme that cross-references the argument of that predicate, labeled Set B in the Mayanist literature
The rest of the paper motivates each of these steps. §2 presents an empirical and theoretical background of hierarchical structure, morpheme ordering and argument licensing in verbs and other categories so as to give a more complete picture of the main descriptive properties of Yucatec and how these have been analyzed theoretically. It is a somewhat lengthy background section, but it makes for a clearer picture of how verbal and non-verbal predication structures are connected in the language. §3 gives an overview of the main descriptive properties of non-verbal predicates and discusses the shortcomings of previous analyses
I have argued that non-verbal sentences in Yucatec Maya consist of a small clause, which establishes the subject-predicate relation, and a null Infl head, which is endowed with the interpretable feature [-dyn] and the uninterpretable features [uࢥ] and [extended projection principle (EPP)]
Summary
Yucatec Maya (Yucatec) and other Mayan languages have fully-fledged sentences that consist only of a non-verbal predicate and a bound morpheme that cross-references the argument of that predicate, labeled Set B in the Mayanist literature. It is a somewhat lengthy background section, but it makes for a clearer picture of how verbal and non-verbal predication structures are connected in the language. At the end of the section, I demonstrate how the proposal in (2) improves upon these previous analyses. §4 presents detailed derivations of non-verbal sentences with much more complexity than those in (1), showing how the basic mechanism in (2), when combined with other independently motivated operations, accounts for many heretofore unanalyzed properties of these sentences. §5 concludes
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